{"id":333,"date":"2011-05-06T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:11:00","slug":"windows-disk-partition-alignment-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/windows-disk-partition-alignment-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently sent the following link that describes disk partition alignment best practices for SQL Server:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd758814.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a really good article — it describes the performance implication of mis-aligned drives — which apply to all Windows installs, not just SQL servers. I’ve participated in alignment discussions several times — specifically as it relates to virtual machine disks. What I like about this article and the ‘performance impact’ section is the test description. The results are not VMware or SAN\/array specific — they relate to local disk (SAS DAS). The issue of alignment is not a VMware discussion — it is primarily a Windows OS discussion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently sent the following link that describes disk partition alignment best practices for SQL Server: http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd758814.aspx This is a really good article — it describes the performance implication of mis-aligned drives — which apply to all Windows installs, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}